[GRAPHICS]Thermodynamic control operates in the synthesis of a [2]rotaxane based upon the dibenzylammonium ion/crown ether recognition motif, When dibenzo[24]crown-8 is added to an acetonitrile solution containing a diimine dumbbell-like component, the dynamic nature of the system (i.e., imine hydrolysis/reformation) offers the ring component access to the NH2+ center, allowing the self-assembly of the corresponding "dynamic" [2]rotaxane to occur. The "fixing" of this [2]rotaxane can be achieved upon reduction of the imine bonds, affording a kinetically inert [2]rotaxane.
Computationally forecasting the effect of dibenzylammonium substituents on pseudorotaxane formation with dibenzo[24]crown-8
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The ability to predict the relative stabilities of analogous pseudorotaxanes is essential for the synthetic chemist yet simplified computational forecasting approaches remain scarce. Consequently, ten [2]pseudorotaxanes have been assembled (from a series of para-substituted dibenzylammonium ions and dibenzo[24]crown-8) and their experimentally-determined stabilities correlated with two computational parameters closely related to complexation energy. The strongest relationship was obtained from density functional theory calculation of binding energy (R-2 = 0.92) while determination of the maximum surface electrostatic potential on the dibenzylammonium ions (a proxy indicator of complex stability) afforded comparable results (R-2 = 0.88) with great reduction in computational expense. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
comprising 23‐ and 26‐membered biphenyl crownethers as the macrocyclic components and secondary ammonium ions as the dumbbell‐shaped components, and the locking of the dynamic axial chirality of the biphenyl moieties in these structures. Chiral high‐performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) revealed that our [2]rotaxane featuring the 26‐membered crownether racemized at room temperature, but the racemization
Modular construction of pyrido[24]crown-8-based templates in the self-assembly of cross-linked [n]catenanes
作者:Luke C. Delmas、Nicholas A. Payne、Franklyn Julien、Avril R. Williams
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2017.07.006
日期:2017.8
Starting from the versatile 4-bromopyrido[24]crown-8 building block, novel ditopic and tritopic receptors have been synthesized and shown to be appropriate hosts for bis(4-formylbenzyl)ammonium hexafluorophosphate. Association constants (per binding site) for the corresponding [3]- and [4]pseudorotaxanes, assembled from these components, were determined to be 2753 M-1 and 723 M-1, respectively. Mechanical bond formation was attempted utilizing dynamic imine bond formation between the formyl groups of the bound dibenzylammonium threads and p-phenylenediamine. (C) 2017 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Bromopyrido-24-crown-8: a versatile building block for the construction of interlocked molecules
作者:Luke C. Delmas、Nicholas A. Payne、Avril R. Williams
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.11.105
日期:2016.2
The usefulness of the aryl halide, 4-bromopyrido-24-crown-8, in easily appending the pyrido-24-crown-8 unit onto organic frameworks to afford new dibenzylammonium receptors has been explored. Bromopyrido-24-crown-8 has been coupled with phenylboronic acid to yield 4-phenylpyrido-24-crown-8, which is shown to complex a variety of dibenzylammonium ions yielding complexes that are more stable than their dibenzo-24-crown-8 counterparts. One of these new complexes, in which a diformyl-terminated thread is bound, has been used to assemble a [2]rotaxane under thermodynamic control. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Computationally forecasting the effect of dibenzylammonium substituents on pseudorotaxane formation with dibenzo[24]crown-8
作者:Nicholas A. Payne、Luke C. Delmas、Sean A.C. McDowell、Avril R. Williams
DOI:10.1016/j.tetlet.2015.07.061
日期:2015.9
The ability to predict the relative stabilities of analogous pseudorotaxanes is essential for the synthetic chemist yet simplified computational forecasting approaches remain scarce. Consequently, ten [2]pseudorotaxanes have been assembled (from a series of para-substituted dibenzylammonium ions and dibenzo[24]crown-8) and their experimentally-determined stabilities correlated with two computational parameters closely related to complexation energy. The strongest relationship was obtained from density functional theory calculation of binding energy (R-2 = 0.92) while determination of the maximum surface electrostatic potential on the dibenzylammonium ions (a proxy indicator of complex stability) afforded comparable results (R-2 = 0.88) with great reduction in computational expense. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.